From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Will Parsons Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Making a non-ASCII space character visible Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2018 17:37:36 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: gyliamos@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1529185105 21945 195.159.176.226 (16 Jun 2018 21:38:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2018 21:38:25 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (FreeBSD) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 16 23:38:21 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fUItp-0005aC-C4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2018 23:38:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52941 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fUIvr-0002Ut-Vh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2018 17:40:27 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Trace: individual.net jtRmTNYcJS1H1BDL244YfwIAgLSYvNbp/IwNQih0Pjk6Tjz2k4 Cancel-Lock: sha1:EtvoE+nbII4S/vhiyG0kBFyMnHw= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:223054 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:117175 Archived-At: On Saturday, 16 Jun 2018 4:15 PM -0400, Will Parsons wrote: > I have a desire to use the Unicode character A007 (FIGURE SPACE) in a > document and to be able to distinguish it visually from a regular ASCII > space. This seems to be already done in the case of 00A0 (NO-BREAK > SPACE) which appears as an underscore with a distinctive face. > > It *looks* like I should be able to do this via the customization > option "Whitespace Display Mappings", but no matter what I do, > attempting to "Apply" the changes results in an error message, "This > field should contain a single character". (This message occurs even > if I try to change one of the display characters of an existing entry > in the list and apply.) > > Feeling desperate, I copied the existing value of > whitespace-display-mappings directly into my custom.el file, and > manually added a new entry for A007 (8199) on the model of the > existing entry for 00A0 (160), but this seems to have no effect on the > display. > > (This is using Emacs 25, in case it should make a difference.) Correction: FIGURE SPACE is actually 0x2007, not 0xA007, but that's simply a mistake in my post, not the actual code. (Sorry for not being more careful.) -- Will